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enEmc² wins grant to create virtual fabrication technology apphttps://www.osc.edu/press/emc%C2%B2_wins_grant_to_create_virtual_fabrication_technology_app
<div class="field field-name-field-byline field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Award adds momentum to AweSim industrial modeling &amp; simulation initiative</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-highlight-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/press/emc%C2%B2_wins_grant_to_create_virtual_fabrication_technology_app"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.osc.edu/sites/osc.edu/files/styles/thumbnail/public/press/releases/2014/images/highlights/Emc2_AweSim_logos.jpg?itok=HaGk3Xpt" width="100" height="100" alt="Emc2 and AweSim logos" title="Emc2 and AweSim logos" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><em class="pull-left font-serif">Columbus, Ohio (<span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2014-08-01T00:00:00-04:00">Friday, August 1, 2014</span>)&nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp;</em><p>The U.S. Department of Energy recently awarded Engineering Mechanics Corporation of Columbus (Emc<sup>2</sup>) and its partners $1 million to develop a cloud-based tool that will simulate welding processes employed in the manufacture of metallic products. The funding gives added momentum to AweSim, a public-private, Ohio-based initiative to boost industrial use of modeling and simulation.</p>
<p>The DOE funding to Emc<sup>2</sup> was awarded through the federal agency’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, which encourages small businesses to develop and commercialize new technologies.</p>
<p>Emc<sup>2</sup> seeks to adapt a welding design software package known as Virtual Fabrication Technology, or VFT, to a more accessible “app” format through the Ohio Supercomputer Center’s (OSC) AweSim program. VFT is a mathematics-based computational tool developed in conjunction with Caterpillar in the late 1990s, with improvements since then to permit small- and medium-sized manufacturers (SMM) to take advantage of the benefits of high performance computing. VFT allows designers to “predict weld-induced distortion and residual-stress states so that weld-design strategies can be implemented to significantly reduce or eliminate these undesirable states prior to fabrication.”</p>
<figure class="caption" style="float:left"><img alt="Frederick &quot;Bud&quot; Brust" height="188" src="/sites/osc.edu/files/BrustNew.jpg" width="150" /><figcaption>Bud Brust of Emc<sup>2</sup></figcaption></figure><p>“Small and mid-sized manufacturing firms need improved weld-fabrication processes to ensure improved quality at lower costs to remain globally competitive,” said Frederick “Bud” Brust, Ph.D., senior research leader at Emc<sup>2</sup> (<a href="http://www.emc-sq.com">http://www.emc-sq.com</a>). “A sophisticated high performance computing based tool will be accessible to SMM firms on a supercomputer center to easily permit use of these tools at affordable prices.”</p>
<p>For this project, Emc<sup>2</sup> has partnered with members of the AweSim program (<a href="https://awesim.org">https://awesim.org</a>), a $6.4 million initiative led by OSC (<a href="https://www.osc.edu">https://www.osc.edu</a>). The program kicked off last summer when the Ohio Third Frontier Commission awarded the public/private partnership a $3 million Innovation Platform Program grant to design and deploy easy-to-use advanced “manufacturing apps.” Client partners are funding the balance of the three-year project.</p>
<p>“The AweSim program is developing advanced manufacturing simulation apps that blend unique manufacturing domain expertise, sophisticated simulation software and powerful cloud-based resources within a digitized workflow,” explained Alan Chalker, Ph.D., director of AweSim. “For example, by clicking a few buttons in an app that models a pipe manifold, we can easily simulate the flow patterns and properties of a liquid.”</p>
<p>Through the AweSim program, Emc<sup>2</sup> will leverage the immense computing power of OSC’s supercomputer clusters to return valuable modeling and simulation data and the corresponding analysis to clients. Founded in 1998, Emc<sup>2</sup> is nationally and internationally recognized for developing innovative solutions that replicate “real world” behavior for structural integrity, process modeling, safety assessments and risk analysis of complex engineered systems and structures.</p>
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<p><em>The </em><strong>Ohio Supercomputer Center</strong><em> (OSC), a member of the Ohio Technology Consortium of the Ohio Board of Regents, addresses the rising computational demands of academic and industrial research communities by providing a robust shared infrastructure and proven expertise in advanced modeling, simulation and analysis. OSC empowers scientists with the vital resources essential to make extraordinary discoveries and innovations, partners with businesses and industry to leverage computational science as a competitive force in the global knowledge economy, and leads efforts to equip the workforce with the key technology skills required to secure 21st century jobs. For more, visit </em><em><a href="http://www.osc.edu"><em>www.osc.edu</em></a></em><em>.</em></p>
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-subjects field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/vocabulary/press-releases/blue-collar-computing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Blue Collar Computing</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/vocabulary/press-releases/supercomputing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Supercomputing</a></div></div></div>Thu, 31 Jul 2014 19:08:15 +0000jabel3933 at https://www.osc.eduAltaSim Technologies wins DOE grant for additive manufacturing https://www.osc.edu/press/altasim_technologies_wins_doe_grant_for_additive_manufacturing
<div class="field field-name-field-byline field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Award boosts momentum for AweSim industrial modeling &amp; simulation initiative</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-highlight-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/press/altasim_technologies_wins_doe_grant_for_additive_manufacturing"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.osc.edu/sites/osc.edu/files/styles/thumbnail/public/press/releases/2014/images/highlights/BothLogos.jpg?itok=aQxHxvve" width="100" height="100" alt="AweSim and AltaSim logos" title="AweSim and AltaSim logos" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><em class="pull-left font-serif">Columbus, Ohio (<span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2014-04-17T00:00:00-04:00">Thursday, April 17, 2014</span>)&nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp;</em><p>The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded AltaSim Technologies nearly $150,000 to further develop the technologies that drive additive manufacturing – adding momentum to an public-private initiative based in Ohio to boost industrial use of modeling and simulation.</p>
<p><a href="/sites/osc.edu/files/press/images/jeffrey-crompton-236x300.jpg"><img alt="Jeffrey Crompton" src="/sites/osc.edu/files/press/images/jeffrey-crompton-236x300.jpg" style="width: 125px; height: 188px; margin: 10px; float: right;" title="Jeffrey Crompton" /></a>AltaSim’s DOE award provides $149,844 through the agency’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, which encourages small businesses to develop and commercialize new technolog<a href="/sites/osc.edu/files/press/images/AltaSim_Logo_289x100-600x0.png"><img alt="AltaSim logo" src="/sites/osc.edu/files/press/images/AltaSim_Logo_289x100-600x0.png" style="width: 174px; height: 60px; margin: 10px; float: left;" title="AltaSim logo" /></a>ies. Additive manufacturing features the use of 3D printing to make a solid, three-dimensional object from a digital model. The process uses an additive process, where printers lay down successive layers of material to create different shapes.</p>
<p>“We plan to create a manufacturing application that will use advanced computational tools and high-performance computing to help U.S. manufacturers improve manufacturing methods by increasing the use of additive manufacturing,” said Jeff <em>Crompton, Ph.D., a principal</em> of Columbus, Ohio-based AltaSim (<a href="http://altasimtechnologies.com">http://altasimtechnologies.com</a>). “Current methods for developing additive manufacturing methods do not use computational analysis due to the complex physics associated with this manufacturing method.”</p>
<p>AltaSim is a founding partner of the AweSim program (<a href="https://awesim.org">https://awesim.org</a>), which kicked off last summer when the Ohio Third Frontier Commission voted to help fund the $6.4 million public/private partnership led by the Ohio Supercomputer <a href="/sites/osc.edu/files/press/images/Alan Chalkers_1.jpg"><img alt="Alan Chalker" src="/sites/osc.edu/files/press/images/Alan%20Chalkers_1.jpg" style="width: 125px; height: 188px; margin: 10px; float: left;" title="Alan Chalker" /></a>Center (OSC). The commission awarded the group a $3 million Innovation Platform Program grant to design and deploy easy-to-use advanced “manufacturing apps.” Client partners are funding the balance of the three-year project.</p>
<p>“The AweSim program is developing advanced manufacturing simulation apps that blend unique manufacturing domain expertise, sophisticated simulation software and powerful cloud-based resources within a digitized workflow,” explained Alan Chalker, Ph.D., director of AweSim. “For example, by clicking a few buttons in an app that models a pipe manifold<a href="/sites/osc.edu/files/press/images/Awesim_logo_RGB_tag.jpg"><img alt="Awesim logo" src="/sites/osc.edu/files/press/images/Awesim_logo_RGB_tag.jpg" style="width: 176px; margin: 10px; float: right; height: 78px;" title="Awesim logo" /></a>, the flow patterns and properties of a liquid can be easily simulated.”</p>
<p>Under the AweSim partnership, AltaSim Technologies is one of several engineering service providers that work with clients to develop the applications, which leverage the immense computing power of OSC’s supercomputer clusters to return valuable modeling and simulation data and analysis to the clients. AltaSim possesses more than a century of collective experience in the development and application of multiphysics simulation, as well as in-depth knowledge of physics, mechanics, computational science and real world processes.</p>
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<p><em>The </em><strong>Ohio Supercomputer Center</strong><em> (OSC), a member of the Ohio Technology Consortium of the Ohio Board of Regents, addresses the rising computational demands of academic and industrial research communities by providing a robust shared infrastructure and proven expertise in advanced modeling, simulation and analysis. OSC empowers scientists with the vital resources essential to make extraordinary discoveries and innovations, partners with businesses and industry to leverage computational science as a competitive force in the global knowledge economy, and leads efforts to equip the workforce with the key technology skills required to secure 21st century jobs. For more, visit </em><em><a href="http://www.osc.edu"><em>www.osc.edu</em></a></em><em>.</em></p>
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-subjects field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/vocabulary/press-releases/blue-collar-computing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Blue Collar Computing</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/vocabulary/press-releases/supercomputing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Supercomputing</a></div></div></div>Wed, 16 Apr 2014 20:53:49 +0000jabel3842 at https://www.osc.eduOSC OnDemand gives computational researchers innovative web interface to HPC systemshttps://www.osc.edu/press/osc_ondemand_gives_computational_researchers_innovative_web_interface_to_hpc_systems
<div class="field field-name-field-byline field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Ohio Supercomputer Center engineers present application at XSEDE13</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-highlight-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/press/osc_ondemand_gives_computational_researchers_innovative_web_interface_to_hpc_systems"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.osc.edu/sites/osc.edu/files/styles/thumbnail/public/press/releases/2013/images/highlights/OSC-OD_ScreenShot7.jpg?itok=n_q9m1hQ" width="100" height="66" alt="OSC OnDemand screenshot" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><em class="pull-left font-serif">Columbus, Ohio (<span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2013-07-23T00:00:00-04:00">Tuesday, July 23, 2013</span>)&nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp;</em><p>Engineers from the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) have developed an innovative access mechanism that is helping researchers to bridge the chasm between the convenience of a web interface and the complexity of high performance computing systems.</p>
<p>The OSC engineers are in San Diego this week to explain to attendees of an international conference on high performance computing (HPC) how the January launch of OSC OnDemand has provided researchers with a “one-stop shop” for accessing computing resources, submitting and monitoring jobs, managing files, opening terminal sessions and even getting access to a desktop.</p>
<p><a href="/sites/osc.edu/files/Dave Hudak_2.jpg"><img alt="" src="/sites/osc.edu/files/Dave%20Hudak_2.jpg" style="width: 150px; height: 226px; margin: 10px; float: left;" title="David Hudak, Ph.D." /></a>The engineers are attending the annual conference of the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), a National Science Foundation project that brings together supercomputers, data collections and computational tools and services to support science and engineering research and education. Its annual conference focuses on science, education, outreach, software and technology used by researchers, technology experts, educators and students worldwide.</p>
<p>According to the OSC engineers, the web has become the dominant access mechanism for remote computing services in every area except HPC. Web applications in HPC primarily exist in the form of science gateways; yet, the majority of work is still performed via access provided through text-based platforms, such as SSH, and, occasionally, through a graphical desktop sharing system, such as VNC. This separation between web and system functionality, they say, limits the impact of HPC. </p>
<p>“Web applications have not truly proliferated as HPC gateways due to the development and administrative overhead required for each individual gateway,” said David Hudak, Ph.D., program director for Cyberinfrastructure and Software Development at OSC. “Meanwhile, traditional SSH interfaces represent a barrier-to-entry for new users, who must locate acceptable client software and learn command-line interfaces for file editing and job control.”</p>
<p>Hudak is confident that user adoption of the new web interface is progressing according to plan. He<a href="/sites/osc.edu/files/OSC-OD_ScreenShot1.jpg"><img alt="" src="/sites/osc.edu/files/OSC-OD_ScreenShot1.jpg" style="width: 200px; height: 110px; margin: 10px; float: right;" title="OSC OnDemand file browser screenshot" /></a> shares user data that indicates an introduction high of 73 users were running more than 1,000 jobs in January, following the soft launch of OSC OnDemand 2.0 and training classes early in the month. The usage steadily climbed over the spring months to 92 users running more than 2,700 jobs in May. The upward trend is expected to continue in the fall once academic researchers have returned from summer vacations and sabbaticals.</p>
<p>“We created OSC OnDemand to be a unified web platform where users could access science gateway-style web applications, VNC applications, HPC center filesystems and login node terminals,” said Thomas Bitterman, a senior software engineer at OSC. “With OSC OnDemand 2.0, the user has to know only three things: the UR<a href="/sites/osc.edu/files/OSC-OD_ScreenShot2.jpg"><img alt="" src="/sites/osc.edu/files/OSC-OD_ScreenShot2.jpg" style="width: 200px; height: 110px; margin: 10px; float: right;" title="OSC OnDemand job status screenshot" /></a>L (ondemand.osc.edu), their username and their password. Once logged into OnDemand, the user is presented with a dashboard showing a set of applications for filesystem access, job construction and monitoring, login node terminal access, visualization node access via VNC and science gateways.”</p>
<p>OSC OnDemand differs in approach from most current science gateways. Predominantly, existing gateways use a web interface to implement a workflow that hides HPC usage. OnDemand is a web platform that enables direct access to HPC resources, in addition to traditional gateway-style applications. If proven popular, the software components for OnDemand could be made into open source products available to the entire HPC community.<a href="/sites/osc.edu/files/OSC-OD_ScreenShot3.jpg"><img alt="" src="/sites/osc.edu/files/OSC-OD_ScreenShot3.jpg" style="width: 200px; height: 110px; margin: 10px; float: right;" title="OSC OnDemand screenshot" /></a></p>
<p>The OSC team began designing web applications in 2008, including examples in remote instrumentation and data-intensive biomedical science. As part of OSC’s industrial engagement program, engineers there built multiple web applications for simulating various physical phenomena, such as welding properties and airflow through an industrial manifold. In June, the State of Ohio and industry partners invested $6.5 million in a new OSC initiative, Intelligent Simulation, to develop and market web-based manufacturing applications through an e-commerce marketplace.</p>
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<hr /><p><em>The </em><strong>Ohio Supercomputer Center</strong><em> (OSC), a member of the Ohio Technology Consortium of the Ohio Board of Regents, addresses the rising computational demands of academic and industrial research communities by providing a robust shared infrastructure and proven expertise in advanced modeling, simulation and analysis. OSC empowers scientists with the vital resources essential to make extraordinary discoveries and innovations, partners with businesses and industry to leverage computational science as a competitive force in the global knowledge economy, and leads efforts to equip the workforce with the key technology skills required to secure 21st century jobs. For more, visit </em><a href="http://www.osc.edu"><em>www.osc.edu</em></a><em>.</em></p>
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-subjects field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/vocabulary/press-releases/blue-collar-computing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Blue Collar Computing</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/vocabulary/press-releases/cyberinfrastructure" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Cyberinfrastructure</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/vocabulary/press-releases/education-and-training" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Education and Training</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/vocabulary/press-releases/supercomputing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Supercomputing</a></div></div></div>Fri, 19 Jul 2013 19:50:53 +0000jabel3424 at https://www.osc.eduTeam enters national US Ignite innovation competition; wins award for best advanced manufacturing apphttps://www.osc.edu/press/team_enters_national_us_ignite_innovation_competition_wins_award_for_best_advanced
<div class="field field-name-field-byline field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">App focuses on transformative technologies to advance industry, education</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-highlight-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/press/team_enters_national_us_ignite_innovation_competition_wins_award_for_best_advanced"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.osc.edu/sites/osc.edu/files/styles/thumbnail/public/press/releases/2013/images/highlights/white_background_highlight.jpg?itok=cyvkNH27" width="100" height="100" alt="Simulation" title="“Simulation-as-a-Service for Advanced Manufacturing”" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><em class="pull-left font-serif">Columbus, Ohio (<span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2013-07-02T00:00:00-04:00">Tuesday, July 2, 2013</span>)&nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp;</em><p>A team of academic and business organizations, mostly from Ohio, won an award for the “Best Application for Advanced Manufacturing” at the Next Generation Application Summit.<br /><br /><a href="/sites/osc.edu/files/press/images/white_background.jpg"><img alt="" src="/sites/osc.edu/files/press/images/white_background.jpg" style="border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; margin: 10px; float: right; width: 30%; height: 30%;" title="A screenshot of simulation results from an app a team of academic and business organizations, mostly from Ohio, developed as a virtual desktop-as-a-service system for advanced manufacturing processes. The app was named “Best Application for Advanced Manufacturing” at the Next Generation Application Summit, sponsored by Mozilla and the National Science Foundation as part of the US Ignite initiative." /></a>The challenge was sponsored by Mozilla Foundation and is part of the nonprofit US Ignite initiative funded partly by the National Science Foundation. The final round of the challenge, held June 25 in Chicago, showcased demos that focused on communities and cities that use gigabit applications to further economic development and new application development that utilize new high-speed networks.<br /><br />Researchers and engineers from the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC), the Ohio Academic Resources Network (OARnet), The Ohio State University, the City of Dublin, Ohio, Metro Data Center (MDC) and the University of Missouri-Columbia (MU), in partnership with TotalSim, VMware and HP, earlier were awarded $25,000 to develop “Simulation-as-a-Service for Advanced Manufacturing.”<br /><br />Their application (<a href="https://mozillaignite.org/apps/443/">https://mozillaignite.org/apps/443/</a>) allows users to remotely access software and compute resources using a virtual desktop-as-a-service system for advanced manufacturing processes. The team members want to transform how professionals and students can make and learn about advanced manufacturing components through a “simulation-as-a-service” app based on cloud resources and software access. The team envisions many opportunities to provide applications such as this over high-speed local networks.<br /><br />Prasad Calyam, an assistant professor of Computer Science at MU and a former research director at OSC/OARnet and OSU, leads the project. He was joined at the summit by Alex Berryman, a performance engineer at OARnet; Ray Leto, CEO of TotalSim; Rob Kopp, president and chief operating officer of MDC, and Dana McDaniel, deputy city manager of Dublin. Dublin operates DubLink, a 96-strand fiber-optic data network that connects directly to MDC, a regional high-tier data center in Dublin, and OARnet, Ohio’s 100 Gigabit per second statewide research and education network backbone. TotalSim, a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) design firm located in Dublin, has partnered with OSC on multiple projects to help small- and medium-sized businesses engage in modeling and simulation.<br /><br />“The service allows for better real-time collaboration between TotalSim’s expertise and the customers, allowing more rapid iterations between user feedback and revised simulations,” explained Calyam. “This decreased time is thanks to the fact that large simulation data-sets are only moved across the OARnet and DubLink fiber networks, and the integrated, secure provisioning of desktop applications (such as Paraview and Microsoft Word) and cloud applications (such as WebEx and Box.net) in the simulation-as-a-service app. External users view the results through a thin-client connection to a virtual desktop but the large data sets and provisioned applications never leave the cloud.”</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-boiler-plate field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div><hr /><em>The </em><strong>Ohio Supercomputer Center</strong><em> (OSC), a member of the Ohio Technology Consortium of the Ohio Board of Regents, addresses the rising computational demands of academic and industrial research communities by providing a robust shared infrastructure and proven expertise in advanced modeling, simulation and analysis. OSC empowers scientists with the vital resources essential to make extraordinary discoveries and innovations, partners with businesses and industry to leverage computational science as a competitive force in the global knowledge economy, and leads efforts to equip the workforce with the key technology skills required to secure 21st century jobs. For more, visit </em><em><a href="http://www.osc.edu"><em>www.osc.edu</em></a></em><em>.</em></div><p> </p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-subjects field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/vocabulary/press-releases/achievements" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Achievements</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/vocabulary/press-releases/blue-collar-computing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Blue Collar Computing</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/vocabulary/press-releases/computational-science" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Computational Science</a></div></div></div>Tue, 02 Jul 2013 21:12:08 +0000jabel3419 at https://www.osc.eduThird Frontier Commission helps fund $6.4 million effort to boost Ohio businesses thru modeling & simulationhttps://www.osc.edu/press/third_frontier_commission_helps_fund_64_million_effort_to_boost_ohio_businesses_thru_modeling
<div class="field field-name-field-byline field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Ohio Supercomputer Center, partners to produce advanced ‘manufacturing apps’</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-highlight-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/press/third_frontier_commission_helps_fund_64_million_effort_to_boost_ohio_businesses_thru_modeling"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.osc.edu/sites/osc.edu/files/styles/thumbnail/public/press/releases/2013/images/highlights/third-frontier.jpg?itok=Vd9hJVz8" width="100" height="99" alt="Ohio Third Frontier logo." /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><em class="pull-left font-serif">Columbus, Ohio (<span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2013-06-12T00:00:00-04:00">Wednesday, June 12, 2013</span>)&nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp;</em><hr /><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="awesim-large.png" src="/sites/osc.edu/files/awesim-large.png" style="width: 300px; height: 125px; margin: 10px;" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Ed Note: The AweSim advanced manufacturing application initiative was referred to as IntelSim<br />
during the grant development process, but is being marketed as AweSim as of October 2013.</strong></p>
<hr /><p>The Ohio Third Frontier Commission today helped fund a $6.4 million public/private effort to leverage the power of supercomputers and the ease of web-based applications to enhance the competitive position of Ohio businesses in the global marketplace.<br /><br />
The commission awarded a $3 million Innovation Platform Program (IPP) grant to the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) and its project partners to design and deploy easy-to-use advanced “manufacturing apps” through the group’s Intelligent Simulation Platform, or IntelSim, program. Client partners are funding the balance of the three-year, $6.4 million project.<a href="/sites/osc.edu/files/images/MFP_Screen.tiff"><img alt="" src="/sites/osc.edu/files/images/MFP_Screen2_SMALL3.jpg" style="width: 250px; height: 185px; float: right; margin: 10px;" title="The IntelSim group will base its new advanced manufacturing apps upon earlier prototype, web-based manufacturing applications, such as the Manifold Flow Predictor developed by Procter &amp; Gamble and the Ohio Supercomputer Center." /></a><br /><br />
“Many large manufacturers have embraced simulation-driven design to achieve a degree of market advantage. Simulation-driven design replaces physical product prototyping with less expensive computer simulations, reducing the time to take products to market, while improving quality and cutting costs,” said Pankaj Shah, executive director of OSC and OARnet. “Smaller manufacturers largely are missing out on this advantage, because they cannot afford to leverage such solutions. IntelSim offers a sustainable competitive advantage with a significantly lower cost than traditional technologies, demonstrated digital tool kits and built-up capabilities.”<br /><br />
Advanced manufacturing simulation apps integrate unique manufacturing domain expertise, sophisticated simulation software and powerful cloud-based resources inside a digitized workflow. For example, by clicking a few buttons in an app that models a pipe manifold, the flow patterns and properties of a liquid can be easily simulated. The OSC team has previously developed similar prototype manufacturing apps for companies in consumer goods, advanced materials and the automotive industry sectors.<br /><br />
A member of the Ohio Technology Consortium, OSC has been at the forefront of the national effort to help industry gain easy and affordable access to advanced modeling and simulation technologies, starting with the 2004 launch of Blue Collar Computing, its innovative and widely regarded industrial outreach initiative. Located on the west campus of The Ohio State University, OSC has developed unique technology capabilities and, together with client partners, a product strategy to help reduce the barriers to entry for this largely untapped global market: cloud-based manufacturing apps delivered through an e-commerce marketplace.<br /><br />
The IntelSim team has an extensive track record leading to the development of IntelSim. OSC is joining forces with client<a href="https://vimeo.com/65583690"><img alt="" src="/sites/osc.edu/files/IntelBill.png" style="width: 324px; height: 205px; float: right; margin: 10px;" /></a> partners Procter &amp; Gamble, Intel, Nimbis Services, TotalSim USA, AltaSim Technologies and Kinetic Vision. Most of these organizations have been involved in the National Digital Engineering &amp; Manufacturing Consortium project, a federal public/private program of recent years to provide Midwestern small- and medium-sized manufacturers with access to advanced modeling and simulation resources.<br /><br />
Proctor &amp; Gamble, TotalSim, AltaSim and Kinetic Vision will be providing modeling and simulation expertise, while Nimbis will provide access to an e-commerce marketplace. Intel, in collaboration with community colleges in Ohio, will focus on workforce training and certification in modeling and simulation.</p>
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Supporting quotes:</p>
<p><strong>Tom Lange</strong><br />
Director, Modeling &amp; Simulation, Corporate R&amp;D<br />
Procter &amp; Gamble</p>
<p><em>In a world where manufacturing and innovation are becoming much more virtual, it is essential that small- and medium-sized businesses have access to advanced modeling and simulation resources. These technologies fuel the more precise and accurate models necessary to mimic the actual results of physical tests commonly used to innovate throughout our supply chain. Through IntelSim, OSC and its partners will provide the computational horsepower and guiding expertise for emerging new users – who are often just learning how to replace their expensive physical prototypes with ever-more-realistic, faster and more affordable simulations.</em></p>
<p><br /><strong>John Carey</strong><br />
Chancellor<br />
Ohio Board of Regents</p>
<p><em>This significant investment from the State of Ohio will play a key role in allowing the Ohio Supercomputer Center to extend a portion of its amazingly powerful resources to help Ohio businesses to better compete with other businesses across the country and around the world. It is important to point out that IntelSim is but one excellent example of how our Ohio Technology Consortium member organizations can be leveraged even better to provide significant value to the greatest number of Ohioans.</em></p>
<p><em>In Ohio, we are serious about the impacts that simulation and modeling can have on advanced manufacturing. This investment by the Third Frontier Commission strengthens the position of Ohio companies to bring new innovations to the marketplace much more quickly, which will provide a direct benefit to our economic bottom line.</em></p>
<p><br /><strong>Carol Whitacre</strong>, Ph.D.<br />
Vice President for Research<br />
The Ohio State University</p>
<p><em>This IPP award is truly exciting, as it will help the Ohio Supercomputer Center launch into the next phase of industrial outreach through its high performance computing resources. IntelSim is just the sort of innovative application of technology that will boost manufacturing and help recognize the Midwest as America's Innovation Belt.</em></p>
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<hr />The <strong>Ohio Supercomputer Center</strong> (OSC), a member of the Ohio Technology Consortium of the Ohio Board of Regents, addresses the rising computational demands of academic and industrial research communities by providing a robust shared infrastructure and proven expertise in advanced modeling, simulation and analysis. OSC empowers scientists with the vital resources essential to make extraordinary discoveries and innovations, partners with businesses and industry to leverage computational science as a competitive force in the global knowledge economy, and leads efforts to equip the workforce with the key technology skills required to secure 21st century jobs. For more, visit <a href="http://www.osc.edu">www.osc.edu</a>.</div>
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-press-contact-info field-type-text-long field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Contact Information:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>&lt;p style=&quot;margin-left:9.0pt;&quot;&gt;Jamie Abel, Communications Director&lt;br&gt;Phone: 614-292-6495&lt;br&gt;Email: &lt;a href=&quot;<a href="mailto:jabel@oh-tech.org&quot;&gt;jabel">mailto:jabel@oh-tech.org&quot;&gt;jabel</a>@oh-tech.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;margin-left:9.0pt;&quot;&gt;Susan Mantey, Communications Manager&lt;br&gt;Phone: 614-292-9457&lt;br&gt;Email: &lt;a href=&quot;<a href="mailto:susan@oh-tech.org&quot;&gt;susan">mailto:susan@oh-tech.org&quot;&gt;susan</a>@oh-tech.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-subjects field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/vocabulary/press-releases/blue-collar-computing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Blue Collar Computing</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/vocabulary/press-releases/education-and-training" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Education and Training</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/vocabulary/press-releases/supercomputing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Supercomputing</a></div></div></div>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:13:56 +0000jabel3402 at https://www.osc.eduOSC receives HPCwire award at SC12 conferencehttps://www.osc.edu/press/osc_receives_hpcwire_award_at_sc12_conference
<div class="field field-name-field-byline field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">OSC received an HPCwire Editors’ Choice Award for Best HPC Collaboration between Government and Industry for the center&#039;s role in NDEMC at SC12 in Salt Lake City, Utah. </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-highlight-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/press/osc_receives_hpcwire_award_at_sc12_conference"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.osc.edu/sites/osc.edu/files/styles/thumbnail/public/press/releases/2012/images/highlights/hpcwire.png?itok=gkRJor6n" width="100" height="31" alt="HPCwire logo" title="HPCwire logo" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><em class="pull-left font-serif">Salt Lake City, Utah (<span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2012-11-14T00:00:00-05:00">Wednesday, November 14, 2012</span>)&nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp;</em><p class="bluelarge" style="color: rgb(0, 63, 135); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Group honors OSC for role with national digital manufacturing initiative</p><p><em>(Salt Lake City, Utah; November 14, 2012) </em>– The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) has been recognized in the annual <em>HPCwire</em> Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards, presented today (Nov. 14) at the 2012 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC12), in Salt Lake City, Utah.</p><p>The list of winners was announced live from the <em>HPCwire</em> booth at the event, and a complete listing is available on the <em>HPCwire</em> website, located at <a href="https://mail.uso.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=00a3bbdd669f4139bcd0cc14abae7536&amp;URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.hpcwire.com%2f" target="_blank">www.HPCwire.com</a>.</p><p>OSC was selected to receive the Editor’s Choice award for Best HPC Collaboration between Government and Industry, for OSC’s contribution to the National Digital Engineering and Manufacturing Consortium (NDMEC) to support and enhance the use of modeling and simulation among America’s small and medium manufacturers.</p><p>“This recognition of Ohio’s contributions to NDEMC and industrial outreach affirms the work we have been spearheading for nearly a decade,” said Ashok Krishnamurthy, Ph.D., senior director of research at OSC. “The kinds of technology resources available through programs like these are increasingly attractive to businesses who are looking to relocate and to those who want to stay here.”</p><p>OSC was similarly recognized with the <em>HPCwire</em> 2006 Readers’ Choice Award for “Best Collaboration between Government and Industry” for its groundbreaking Blue Collar Computing program. OSC launched the Blue Collar Computing program in 2004 to provide small and medium-sized business – which lack high performance computing (HPC) resources, training, and expertise – with the tools they need to enhance the companies’ competitiveness in the global marketplace.</p><table align="right" border="0" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="6" style="width: 400px;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="/sites/osc.edu/files/HPCwireAward_0.jpg" style="border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; margin: 12px; width: 350px; height: 262px;" title="" /></td></tr><tr><td><em>OSC Senior Director of Research Ashok Krishnamurthy (left) and OSC Executive Director Pankaj Shah accept the Editor's Choice Award at SC12 from HPCwire Publisher Tom Tabor.</em></td></tr></tbody></table><p>“NDEMC, public/private partnerships, and a future state resembling agricultural extension service models utilizing academic institutions can jump start this whole cycle for small and medium enterprises (SMEs),” said Tom Lange, director of modeling and simulation corporate R&amp;D at the Procter &amp; Gamble Company. P&amp;G serves as one of NDEMC’s private partners and is a recognized a leader in modeling and simulation among manufacturers. “To grow that ecosystem, it is vital that small and medium-sized businesses have access to the powerful computational and storage resources that OSC provides. That computing power fuels the more precise and accurate models necessary to mimic the actual results of physical tests commonly used to innovate. OSC also provides guiding expertise for emerging new users − who are often just learning how to replace their expensive physical prototypes with ever-more-realistic, faster and more affordable simulations.”</p><p>Last fall, OSC and several of Ohio’s other statewide technology organizations were brought under the umbrella of the Ohio Technology Consortium, or OH-TECH, where Blue Collar Computing was transitioned into Technology Innovation Services program.</p><p>“The consortium now reaches across the expertise of the several fields of technology, including such vital areas as modeling &amp; simulation, high-speed networking, innovative e-learning programs and extensive online library resources,” said Pankaj Shah, executive director of OSC. “I’m proud to say that Ohio’s suite of technology offerings leads the nation in many respects.”</p><p>Funded in 2011 by the U.S. Economic Development Administration, NDEMC is a public/private partnership that seeks to provide midwestern small- and medium-sized manufacturers with access to advanced modeling and simulation resources. OSC is actively supporting 13 of 20 board-approved projects, nine of which involve small- and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises that have some sort of physical presence in Ohio. NDEMC’s 12 other partner organizations, including resource providers at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and Purdue University, received similar awards from <em>HPCwire</em>.</p><p>The highly-coveted <em>HPCwire</em> Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards are determined through online polling of the global <em>HPCwire</em> audience for the Readers’ Choice Awards, combined with a rigorous selection process for the Editor’s Choice Awards, where winners have been selected by a panel of editorial and executive staff, recognized HPC luminaries, and contributing editors from across the industry. The awards are revealed during the Monday opening reception at the Supercomputing Conference each year, which showcases high performance computing, networking, storage, and data analysis. The awards hold the unique distinction of being recognized as the most prestigious recognition given by the HPC community to its own each year.</p><p>“It’s an honor and a privilege to take time during the most important supercomputing conference globally to acknowledge the organizations and the individuals behind them who exemplify the hard work, dedication, and effort that has taken place the past year to develop new technologies that ultimately benefit mankind,” said Jeff Hyman, president and group publisher of Tabor Communications Inc. “The awards represent the highest level of recognition to the leaders and luminaries in the high performance computing industry by our <em>HPCwire</em> readers and the community alike. Our warmest congratulations go out to all the recipients of this year’s awards.”</p><p>More information on the awards can be found at the <em>HPCwire</em> website <a href="https://mail.uso.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=00a3bbdd669f4139bcd0cc14abae7536&amp;URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.hpcwire.com%2f" target="_blank">www.hpcwire.com</a></p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-boiler-plate field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div><p style="text-align: center;">_________________</p><p><em>The </em><strong>Ohio Supercomputer Center</strong><em> (OSC), a member of the Ohio Technology Consortium of the Ohio Board of Regents, addresses the rising computational demands of academic and industrial research communities by providing a robust shared infrastructure and proven expertise in advanced modeling, simulation and analysis. OSC empowers scientists with the vital resources essential to make extraordinary discoveries and innovations, partners with businesses and industry to leverage computational science as a competitive force in the global knowledge economy, and leads efforts to equip the workforce with the key technology skills required to secure 21st century jobs. For more, visit </em><a href="http://www.osc.edu"><em>www.osc.edu</em></a><em>.</em></p></div><p><em><strong>HPCwire</strong> is the #1 news and information portal covering the fastest computers in the world and the people who run them. With a legacy dating back to 1986, HPCwire continues to be the publication of choice globally by business and technology professionals from academia, government, science, and industry who are interested in high performance and computationally intensive computing. For topics ranging from the latest developments in systems, software, tools and applications, to middleware, networking and storage technologies, HPCwire delivers it all and remains the HPC communities’ most reliable and trusted resource. For additional information, visit: <a href="http://www.hpcwire.com">www.hpcwire.com</a></em></p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-subjects field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/vocabulary/press-releases/achievements" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Achievements</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/vocabulary/press-releases/blue-collar-computing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Blue Collar Computing</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/vocabulary/press-releases/supercomputing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Supercomputing</a></div></div></div>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 19:45:15 +0000jabel3030 at https://www.osc.eduTop federal economic development official visits OSChttps://www.osc.edu/press/top_federal_economic_development_official_visits_osc
<div class="field field-name-field-byline field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) officials recently described for a top federal economic development official how the center is using advanced modeling and simulation to boost the prospects for small- and medium-sized supply-chain businesses.</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><em class="pull-left font-serif">Columbus, Ohio (<span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2012-08-21T00:00:00-04:00">Tuesday, August 21, 2012</span>)&nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp;</em><p align="left" class="bluelarge" style="color: rgb(0, 63, 135); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">OSC, business clients explain roles with EDA's NDEMC program</p>
<p><em>Columbus, Ohio</em> (Aug. 21, 2012) – Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) officials recently described for a top federal economic development official how the center is using advanced modeling and simulation to boost the prospects for small- and medium-sized supply-chain businesses.</p>
<p>Matt Erskine, Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development, visited OSC in Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 21 to learn more about OSC’s role in the National Digital Engineering and Manufacturing Consortium (NDEMC) program. NDEMC is a five-year public-private partnership funded by the Economic Development Administration (EDA).<a href="/sites/osc.edu/files/press/releases/2012/images/edavisit_0.jpg"><img alt="" src="/sites/osc.edu/files/press/releases/2012/images/edavisit_0_SMALL.jpg" style="margin: 10px; float: right; " /></a></p>
<p>“The Columbus region has been working to provide the advanced tools that businesses need to give them a cutting edge in the marketplace,” said Erskine in a Commerce Department <a href="http://www.commerce.gov/blog/2012/08/21/eda-helping-businesses-columbus-ohio-grow-and-hire">blog</a> immediately following his visit. “A very important and impressive tool is the Ohio Supercomputer Center, a statewide resource that provides supercomputing services and computational science expertise to both researchers and industry.”</p>
<p>NDEMC’s initial effort is the Midwest Project for SME-OEM Use of Modeling and Simulation. The project is the first large-scale public-private partnership of the United States Government, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), state and university computing centers, the State of Ohio, and other non-governmental organizations to provide education, training, and access to computing resources for the small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) manufacturing workforce to develop modeling and simulation skills.</p>
<p>“OSC has a long history of involvement in public-private industrial outreach projects with federal agencies, such as EDA and the Departments of Defense and Energy,” said Alan Chalker, Ph.D., director of Client Engineering for OSC. “We’re very pleased to have top-level officials, such as Secretary Erskine, engaging with us at the local level for the NDEMC program.”</p>
<p>The NDEMC project aims to improve competitiveness and innovation capacity in the American manufacturing supply chain by helping to develop a workforce with enhanced technical skills, improved product quality, better customization of products, and job retention and growth.</p>
<p>The Council on Competitiveness is leading the project with partners: The Procter &amp; Gamble Company, Lockheed Martin, General Electric Energy, John Deere Company, OSC, The National Center for Supercomputing Applications, The National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, and Purdue University. OSC is actively supporting 13 of 20 board-approved projects, working with SMEs Plastipak, Greenlight Optics, Jeco Plastics, Replex Plastics, Applied Sciences, Morrison Products, AltaSim Technologies, KLW Plastics, Midwest Precision, Technology Management Inc. and Engendren.</p>
<p>OSC has been at the forefront of the effort by high performance computing centers to help industry gain easy and affordable access to advanced computing technologies. With support from the Ohio Board of Regents, OSC launched its innovative industrial outreach initiative, Blue Collar Computing, in 2004. Under this program, OSC provides companies with advanced computational technologies that allow for the virtual development of new and improved products, such as cars, pharmaceuticals and financial products.</p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-boiler-plate field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>The <strong>Ohio Supercomputer Center</strong> (OSC), a member of the Ohio Technology Consortium of the Ohio Board of Regents, addresses the rising computational demands of academic and industrial research communities by providing a robust shared infrastructure and proven expertise in advanced modeling, simulation and analysis. OSC empowers scientists with the vital resources essential to make extraordinary discoveries and innovations, partners with businesses and industry to leverage computational science as a competitive force in the global knowledge economy, and leads efforts to equip the workforce with the key technology skills required to secure 21st century jobs. For more, visit <a href="http://www.osc.edu">www.osc.edu</a>.</p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-subjects field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/vocabulary/press-releases/blue-collar-computing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Blue Collar Computing</a></div></div></div>Thu, 23 Aug 2012 20:33:59 +0000swilson2969 at https://www.osc.eduOhio Supercomputer Center and NIMBIS to collaborate to fill computation gap within company supply chainshttps://www.osc.edu/press/ohio_supercomputer_center_and_nimbis_to_collaborate_to_fill_computation_gap_within_company
<div class="field field-name-field-byline field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Columbus, Ohio _ September 22, 2008 _ Ohio Supercomputer Center officials today announced that the Center has entered into an agreement with Nimbis Services Inc.</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><em>Columbus, Ohio </em>– September 22, 2008 – Ohio Supercomputer Center officials today announced that the Center has entered into an agreement with Nimbis Services Inc. to connect regional industry supply chains to OSC’s Blue Collar Computing computational and expertise resources. </p> <p>OSC and NIMBIS have partnered to achieve the following:</p> <ul><li>Broaden and grow the value of OSC’s high performance computing (HPC) research and development services, computing centers and Blue Collar Computing initiative for government R&amp;D organizations and regional companies;</li> <li>Provide a strategic regional new customer supply-chain incubator (market channel) and source of domain-specific web portals. In addition, OSC will provide early feedback and support as an early evaluator, adopter and user of NIMBIS clearinghouse services. </li> </ul><p>OSC and NIMBIS will work on underserved markets in HPC utilization, a situation known as the “HPC Gap” where industry users have not been able to access available HPC resources to meet their needs. According to a 2004 survey by the Council on Competitiveness – a nonpartisan, nongovernmental organization of business, labor, academic and government leaders – 97 percent of major companies could not function without high performance computing and computational science. </p> <p>“OSC has been a critical partner in national industry HPC initiatives for many years, and I am pleased that OSC has selected NIMBIS to help address the HPC Gap,” said Robert Graybill, president and CEO of Nimbis Services. “We share a similar vision with OSC as to the potential for HPC to be integrated into business operations and plan to realize that vision with this partnership.”</p> <p>Several objectives outlined in the OSC and NIMBIS partnership include:</p> <ul type="disc"><li>Removing industrial barriers to entry by creating a Blue Collar Computing Supply Chain Alliance Community comprised of Tier 1 companies and their supply-chain counterparts;</li> <li>Encouraging joint academic and industry collaborations to eliminate software license obstacles;</li> <li>Commercializing routine usage of OSC resources and accelerate industry R&amp;D;</li> <li>Developing domain-specific web portals;</li> <li>Providing remote access to shared instruments and storage and analysis of resulting data; and</li> <li>Publicizing solutions that address the HPC Gap.</li> </ul><p>“NIMBIS and OSC services will be integrated so that companies can access our web portals and R&amp;D interfaces in a seamless fashion,” said Ashok Krishnamurthy, Ph.D., director of research at the Ohio Supercomputer Center. “By providing a common interface, many companies will receive a needed ‘one-stop’ shop for their computational and software needs.”</p> <p>Computer technologies provide companies with innovative tools that allow for the virtual development of new and improved products, such as cars, pharmaceuticals and financial products. Virtual modeling and simulation also provide companies with a competitive edge through improved manufacturing process design to bring products to market quicker, reducing development time, cost and labor. Simulation makes choosing between alternative processing methods far easier. </p> <p>Better analysis and documentation of capabilities helps with efficiency. Improved factory and workflow layouts increase productivity. All of these factors can dramatically improve a company's bottom line and increase its competitive edge in the global marketplace.</p> <p><strong>About the Ohio Supercomputer Center</strong><br /> Ohio Supercomputer Center: Celebrating 20 years of service, the Ohio Supercomputer provides supercomputing, networking, research and educational resources to a diverse state and regional community including education, academic research, industry, and government. Funded by the Ohio Board of Regents, OSC promotes and stimulates computational research and education to enable the state to achieve its aspirations in information systems and advanced technology and industries. For additional information, visit <a href="http://www.osc.edu">www.osc.edu</a>.</p> <p><strong>About Nimbis Services, Inc. </strong><br /> Nimbis Services, Inc. (NIMBIS) is a startup company in the Digital Analysis Computing (DAC) industry, that connects its clients transparently through an industry wide clearinghouse with 3rd party compute resources (Cycle Providers), commercial application software and expertise. Our primary goal is to provide low-risk, low-effort “pay-as-you go” access to DAC for small to midsize companies who are currently unable to move beyond technical computing on the desktop. Another differentiating characteristic of these clients is that they tend to be experimental and periodic users of DAC services, regardless of the size of the company. <strong> </strong>A key aspect of the Service will be providing access to and license management for commercial HPC software<strong>. </strong>For additional information, visit <a href="http://www.nimbisservices.com">www.nimbisservices.com</a></p> <h1><br /></h1> <h1 align="left"> </h1></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-subjects field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/vocabulary/press-releases/research" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Research</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/vocabulary/press-releases/blue-collar-computing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Blue Collar Computing</a></div></div></div>Thu, 31 May 2012 21:29:21 +0000cfahey2732 at https://www.osc.eduOhio Supercomputer Center collaborates with YSU, Fireline TCON in new Center for Excellence in Advanced Materials Analyseshttps://www.osc.edu/press/ohio_supercomputer_center_collaborates_with_ysu_fireline_tcon_in_new_center_for_excellence_in
<div class="field field-name-field-byline field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Youngstown, Ohio _ July 8, 2008 _ The Ohio Third Frontier Commission has awarded Youngstown State University with a $2.</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><h2>Ohio Third Frontier Commission recommends $2.1 million to establish center</h2> <p><em>Youngstown, Ohio</em> – July 8, 2008 – The Ohio Third Frontier Commission has awarded Youngstown State University with a $2.1 million grant to establish a Center for Excellence in Advanced Materials Analyses in collaboration with Fireline TCON Inc. and the Ohio Supercomputer Center. The project will focus on research, analyses, modeling and commercialization of products with increased resistance to thermal shock and lower thermal conductivity. </p> <p>At the new facility, Fireline will further develop new refractory materials for the processing of liquid aluminum. The work will improve liquid aluminum-resistant refractory materials for use during molten metal handling, melt treatment and castings. Additional applications include lightweight braking systems and body armor for soldiers.</p> <p>“We’re extremely pleased to be involved in this collaborative effort as part of our Blue Collar Computing initiative,” said Ashok Krishnamurthy, senior director of research at the Ohio Supercomputer Center. “Our goal with Blue Collar Computing is to help companies build better products, cut production costs, quickly solve problems, and streamline overall efficiency. OSC will provide access to its high-powered supercomputers to the center, as well as support YSU mechanical engineers as they develop and test new software to model the reactions of the liquid aluminum.” </p> <p>Lieutenant Governor Lee Fisher, chair of the Ohio Third Frontier Commission, recently announced seven grant projects – including the Advanced Materials Analyses Center – that totaled $19.6 million in funding through the Ohio Third Frontier Wright Projects Program. All the recommended programs aim to commercialize research projects in areas such as pathogen detection, rubber production and fuel cells. The awards are contingent upon State Controlling Board approval.</p> <p>“These projects demonstrate the teamwork between our educational institutions and private companies that is so critical to ensuring a solid foundation for our growing industries,” said Fisher, who also serves as director of the Ohio Department of Development. “Strengthening the links among education, research, and economic development is not only our mission but our obligation in making sure we attract and retain jobs of the future.” </p> <p>The Ohio Third Frontier Wright Projects Program provides grants to support specifically defined near-term commercialization projects requiring major capital acquisitions and improvements at Ohio colleges and universities and non-profit research institutions. Projects must involve one or more Ohio companies and be in the areas of advanced materials, power and propulsion, information technology and instruments, controls and electronics.</p> <p>Celebrating more than 20 years of service, the <strong>Ohio Supercomputer Center</strong> (OSC) is a catalytic partner of Ohio universities and industries that provides a reliable high performance computing and high performance networking infrastructure for a diverse statewide/regional community including education, academic research, industry, and state government. Funded by the Ohio Board of Regents, OSC promotes and stimulates computational research and education in order to act as a key enabler for the state's aspirations in advanced technology, information systems, and advanced industries. For additional information, visit <a href="http://www.osc.edu/">http://www.osc.edu</a>.</p> <h1> </h1></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-subjects field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/vocabulary/press-releases/research" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Research</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/vocabulary/press-releases/blue-collar-computing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Blue Collar Computing</a></div></div></div>Thu, 31 May 2012 21:29:21 +0000cfahey2749 at https://www.osc.eduOSC, partners receive portion of multi-million dollar Defense contract, to provide high performance computing solutions for DoD suppliershttps://www.osc.edu/press/osc_partners_receive_portion_of_multi_million_dollar_defense_contract_to_provide_high
<div class="field field-name-field-byline field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Columbus, Ohio - Nov.</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><h2 align="left"><img align="right" alt="Blue Collar Computing logo" border="0" height="102" src="/files/press/releases/2008/images/BCC_logo.png" width="300" />Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awards USC-led team $3.6M</h2>
<p><em>Columbus, Ohio</em> - Nov. 19, 2008 - In collaboration with the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute, who was awarded a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract, the Ohio Supercomputer Center will help demonstrate the benefits of high performance computing, defense-critical modeling and simulation solutions for the Department of Defense supply chain.</p>
<p>As part of OSC’s Blue Collar Computing program, the Center received $815,000 of the $3.6 million contract on HPC-ISP Study Extension for two pilot projects – Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) Simulator and Military Vehicle Weight Reduction.</p>
<p>The Blue Collar Computing program helps companies gain access to supercomputing technology at an affordable cost. In addition to supercomputer access, Blue Collar Computing provides assistance with product and process design, with an emphasis on virtual prototyping through modeling and simulation, to reduce the time, cost and effort of bringing a product to market.</p>
<p>For the DARPA subcontract, OSC is partnering with ACES and Composites DOC, LLC, to support the development of high performance computing and real-time modeling solutions for military suppliers IAP Research, Inc. and AlphaStar. OSC will provide the expertise for HPC hosting, user interface design and implementation, data storage and provide experience with applications that leverage secure, remote access to HPC systems, such as Web-based user interfaces and programmatic job control.</p>
<p>“Secondary and tertiary suppliers to Department of Defense contractors often are small businesses that do not have access to high performance computing technology or systems,” said Ashok Krishnamurthy, senior director of research at the Ohio Supercomputer Center. “Just as we’ve found Blue Collar Computing benefits civilian small businesses, we expect these pilot projects to show that HPC can benefit all levels of the military’s supply chain.”</p>
<p>The first project seeks to decrease the need for IAP to build and test physical prototypes, while reducing the electromagnetic interference for major U.S. Navy electrical systems. OSC has partnered with simulation and modeling experts at ACES to develop technology infrastructures that will enable engineers to model systems-level designs using high performance computing.</p>
<p>“IAP designs power processing equipment for ship-based power modules, which maintain electricity in emergencies,” said Jeff Crompton, principal of ACES. “Implementing high performance computing applications with OSC will allow IAP to simulate the equipment’s electromagnetic interference signature thus allowing them to optimize circuit design without the need for time consuming and expensive prototype testing.”</p>
<p>In the second project, OSC has partnered with Composites DOC, a company that specializes in simulation and modeling of composite structures. By virtually designing, fabricating and testing improved models, the work will pursue reducing the chassis weight of military vehicles through the use of composite materials.</p>
<p>“We’re fortunate to have had the computer power to model vehicle components, but the process was cumbersome. The limited resources meant having to produce subassemblies, make assumptions on boundary conditions, simulate individual strength and stress, then plug the subassembly change back into the whole vehicle for verification,” said Brian Knouff, president, Composites DOC. “By tapping the supercomputers at the Ohio Supercomputer Center, we now can model the vehicle’s entire stability and endurance, which will enable us to better develop conceptual designs and business plans for commercialization.”</p>
<p>Collaborators with USC on other parts of the overall contract include Council on Competitiveness, Pratt &amp; Whitney and California State University.<u> </u></p>
<p>Celebrating more than 20 years of service, the <strong>Ohio Supercomputer Center</strong> (OSC) is a catalytic partner of Ohio universities and industries that provides a reliable high performance computing and high performance networking infrastructure for a diverse statewide/regional community including education, academic research, industry, and state government. Funded by the Ohio Board of Regents, OSC promotes and stimulates computational research and education in order to act as a key enabler for the state's aspirations in advanced technology, information systems, and advanced industries. Blue Collar Computing is a collaborative program sponsored by OSC to help Ohio industry gain easy and affordable access to advanced computing technologies. For additional information, visit <a href="http://www.osc.edu/">http://www.osc.edu</a>.</p>
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